Two talks with guest speakers Professor Özlem Berk Albachten (Boğaziçi University) and Dr Stefania Taviano (University of Messina), as part of the Translation, Adaptation and Performance research theme at the School.

Presenters from Cardiff University will use examples from their real-world Global Challenges Research Fund projects to highlight known ethical pitfalls in official development assistance collaborations.

In this lecture Professor Katherine Gibson approaches the issue of a manufacturing future for Australia by asking: What kinds of manufacturing cultures might be up to the challenges of the Anthropocene?

A workshop with Swiss writer Alexandra Lavizarri who will introduce her novel Und Harry?, talk through how she wrote it and will read various parts from it in German. Followed by an opportunity to translate paragraphs from German into English and to discuss the outcome of their attempt with the writer.